- In a formal Floor speech in the Arizona Senate tomorrow
(Tuesday, June 10), Senator Karen S. Johnson plans to blast Congress for
their failure to defend U.S. citizens who were killed on September 11,
2001, and their failure to properly investigate those attacks.
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- "It has been nearly seven years," says Johnson,
"and we are faced with new evidence that turns the conclusions of
the 9/11 Commission upside down. We are fighting a war because of 9/11
and we still don't really know what happened. We have spent billions
of dollars on the war, with an additional $340 million per day. Thousands
of U.S. servicemen and women have lost their lives, not to mention the
lives of innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians."
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- Johnson revealed in a committee hearing in April that
she did not accept the official report of the 9/11 Commission and has since
defended supporters calling for a new independent investigation of the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "Ground Zero was
treated like little more than the site of a building demolition which,
of course, is exactly what it was," says Johnson. "Everyone who
has studied it recognizes that the Twin Towers and Building 7 came down
as a result of controlled explosions not because of the airplanes
and fires."
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- Johnson has joined forces with local 9/11 activists who
for more than two weeks have been staging a protest outside the Phoenix
office of presidential candidate U.S. Senator John McCain. One protestor,
college professor Blair Gadsby of Scottsdale, began a hunger strike on
May 26 to bring attention to the need for Congress to re-open the investigation
into 9/11. Gadsby plans to fast until Senator McCain agrees to meet with
experts who will present evidence that the WTC buildings came down through
controlled demolition. Tomorrow will be Day 16 of the Hunger Strike. Senator
Johnson has invited Gadsby to the Senate to listen to her Floor speech.
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- "The U.S. government is constantly interfering with
states in matters that are none of its business," said Johnson. "Yet
when it comes to the one really significant job the Constitution assigns
to the government -- defending our nation the federal government
failed miserably. Not only did they fail to put up any sort of a defense
after the first plane struck the North Tower (Tower 1), but they failed
to mobilize the air defense system, they failed to protect the President,
who sat reading in a public school for 20 minutes while the attacks continued,
and they failed to defend our most important military installation
the Pentagon. The public is sick to death of do-nothing politicians in
Congress who forget what their job is the minute they arrive in Washington.
Finding out what happened on 9/11 and bringing the perpetrators to justice
is the job of Congress and the Executive branch. We need to know what happened
to Building 7. We need to get answers to the many unanswered questions
that still exist. We need an investigation especially of the new
evidence. It's time for Congress and our President to act."
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- Contact - Senator Karen S. Johnson (602-926-3160)
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